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Are you a Senior Software Engineer that has spent several years working with Big Data technologies? Have you created streaming analytics algorithms to process terabytes of real-time data and deployed Hadoop or Cassandra clusters over dozens of VMs? Have you been part of an organization driven by a DevOps culture, where the engineer has end to end responsibility for the product, from development to operating it in production? Are you willing to join a team of elite engineers working on a fast growing analytics business? Then this role is for you!
Job Description
The Software and DevOps engineer will help build the analytics platform for Bazaarvoice data that will power our client-facing reporting, product performance reporting, and financial reporting. You will also help us operationalize our Hadoop clusters, Kafka and Storm services, high volume event collectors, and build out improvements to our custom analytics job portal in support of Map/Reduce and Spark jobs. The Analytics Platform is used to aggregate data sets to build out known new product offerings related to analytics and media as well as a number of pilot initiatives based on this data. You will need to understand the business cases of the various products and build a common platform and set of services that help all of our products move fast and iterate quickly. You will help us pick and choose the right technologies for this platform.
Key Responsibilities
In your first 90 days you can expect the following:
- An overview of our Big Data platform code base and development model
- A tour of the products and technologies leveraging the Big Data Analytics Platform
- 4 days of Cloudera training to provide a quick ramp up of the technologies involved
- By the end of the 90 days, you will be able to complete basic enhancements to code supporting large-scale analytics using Map/Reduce as well as contribute to the operational maintenance of a high volume event collection pipeline.
Within the first year you will:
- Own design, implementation, and support of major components of platform development. This includes working with the various stakeholders for the platform team to understand their requirements and delivery high leverage capabilities.
- Have a complete grasp of the technology stack, and help guide where we go next.
Bazaarvoice is a network that connects brands and retailers to the authentic voices of people where they shop. Each month, more than 500 million people view and share authentic opinions, questions and experiences about tens of millions of products in the Bazaarvoice network. Our technology platform amplifies these voices into the places that influence purchase decisions. Network analytics help marketers and advertisers provide more engaging experiences that drive brand awareness, consideration, sales and loyalty. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Bazaarvoice has offices in Chicago, London, Munich, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, and Sydney.
Total Compensation is $30 / hour
Apply online: https://hire.jobvite.com/j?cj=oSm91fw8&s=JBzIAzGtt
Requirements
Required Skills and Experience
- 3-5 years of experience with highly scalable systems using open source tools.
-In-depth knowledge of the software development lifecycle (design, build, test, deploy, support).
- Deep knowledge of Linux, networking and security.
- High familiarity with AWS and the tools and services it offers.
- An ability to demonstrate software engineering fundamentals such as OO design, unit testing, code reuse, code reviews.
- Nice to have experience building large-scale data processing platforms. This includes developing prototypes and proof-of-concepts for the selected solutions.
-Extensive knowledge in different programming/scripting languages such as Java, C++, PHP, Ruby, Python, bash, etc.
-Familiarity with one or more big-data infrastructures such as Hbase, Hadoop, Spark, or, Casandra.
- Willingness to rotate on-call for the platform supporting the next generation of Bazaarvoice’s business - we’re depending on you.
- Knowledge of modern build tools such as Maven, Jenkins, Github, etc
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
About the Company
Crossover is redefining the way people work. We believe that brick and mortar offices are artefacts of ancient history. Teams in every corner of the earth will build the workplace of the future. We are unlocking that potential today. We're embarking on an expedition to find and engage with the highest talent the world over. As an elite platform we connect the brightest and the best to their dream jobs. And we don't just stop there. We'll provide the tools, the training, and the relationships that will ensure your success. Are you ready to unleash the power of 7 billion?